- [Voiceover] Adobe Audition CC has a number of updates.Some of these updates are pretty significant,but some of them are difficult to notice.For example, right now I'm workingon a very high-resolution screen.And Audition has automatically updatedthe way it displays buttons, icons,text and so on,to be nice and sharp on the screen.This is called high-DPI screen support,and it just means that automatically,if you're working on a high-resolution screen,Audition will look better.

On the subject of Audition's appearance,you'll notice there's a new, clean,Creative Cloud interface.And, I suppose one of the most noticeable differences,if I select a panel by clicking on it here,is the blue highlight.We used to have an orange highlight, now we have a blue one.This means it's pretty easy to seewhether you're working with an updated versionof the software or not.If it's orange, it's old.This doesn't change the functionality of the application,but I must admit the new, cleaner interfacemakes it a little bit easierto interact with the application.

Let's say it's a little easier on the eyewhen you're working on a long session.Another new feature is in the playback video.Now, you may already be familiarwith the option to press the grave key,that's kind of like a backwards apostrophe key,to toggle any panel full screen.Here I've got my mouseover the little video panel in the corner of the screen.Pressing the grave key, and it's toggling full screen.Now this is a multi-track session,with a little video in it just to demonstrate this feature.

You can see it's quick and easy to toggle between the two.But you now also have the option to right click here,and, as well as choosing different playback resolutionand scaling, you've got the optionto mirror full screen onto a second monitor.Now I don't have a second monitor connected,so these options are grayed out.But if you do, you've got the optionto use that second monitor for video playback,making it much easier to produce a mixed picture.Well, it's just a bigger image.You also now have the option to customize your meters.

You'll notice if you right-click,or control click, on Mac OS,you've got the option to specify a DB range,and you can choose static or dynamic peaks,and you can choose between LED metersor gradient meters.Now you'll notice here, if I just play for a moment(musical note)I've got solid color there.And if I change this to LED meters,and play again, I'm using the spacebar here.(musical note)You see, I get those little marks.

Now that's important,because this new feature only workswith meters that are in chunks like that.The LED meters, for example.So I'm gonna go to edit, and preferences,and into playback.And here you can see,I can specify the meter-color crossover levels.So I can specify at what amplitude the meters will switch,to yellow and to red.Looks kind of orangey to me,but you see you can specify those thresholds.

Most people are probably going to want160b for the red level,and minus 18 for the yellow.But of course if you're working in a broadcast environment,you may have different target line levels,and perhaps it's easier for you to adjust these.We'll just cancel out of here.There are also a few new featuresthat really are transparent to the user.For example, there are now audio-devicedriver performance improvements.And that means that,particularly when you're switchingbetween Audition and other applications and back again,you'll find that the system just generally tends to work,instead of potentially hangingand losing the audio driver,and not being able to play any sound anymore.

You'll also find in particular,working with USB pre-amps, or USB microphones,performance will be improved.Again, this isn't something you're really going to noticein using the application,it just means it won't break, it'll work better.Also, good news if you speak Brazilian or Portuguese,because these two languages are now supported by Audition.And so are new video formats.In fact, because there's a new video playback engineincorporated into Adobe Audition,it's the Premier Pro playback engine,every format supported by Premier Prois now also supported by Audition.

You can import whatever you like,whether it's a RED R3D file, an AVI,it doesn't really matter.So those are the smaller new features in Adobe Audition CCthat might not transform your experienceof using the application, I think you'll agree,give you an overall better user experience.

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7/15/2016

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6/17/2013

Discover the powerful audio-editing tool set offered in Audition CC. In this course, author Maxim Jago shows how to navigate the interface and understand fundamental audio concepts. Editors who have traditionally completed audio work inside a nonlinear editing system will benefit from discovering the tools, workflows, and terminology used in professional audio post-production.

Check out the new chapter, "2015 Creative Cloud New Features," for information on the latest features and enhancements in Audition CC.

Topics include:

Introducing Adobe Audition

Important audio terminology

Importing and managing media files

Working with sound files

Making standard waveform audio adjustments

Adding special effects to a file

Cleaning up audio

Multitrack editing

Integration and output

Skill Level Beginner

6h 39m

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Q: This course was updated on 06/19/2015. What changed?

A: We added one new chapter covering the 2015 enhancements to AuditionCC.